Реферат: Blacks In Baseball Essay Research Paper Jackie

289). The LA Dodgers also retired his number (Ward, Burns 289). He opened a chain of

restaurants in New York and moved on to persue another dream, to help other black people

become successful like he did (Hill 2). He first joined the National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People (NAACP) and was on the board of directors (Ward, Burns 289). In 1963 he

started getting involved with the civil rights movement (Enders 1). Robinson teamed up with Martin

Luther King Jr. and went to Birmingham, Alabama to speak out against racism. King and Robinson

went to many gatherings around the Birmingham area to speak out against racism (Enders 1). The

two had a very hard time getting people together to speak to them because of all the violence that

was happening as a result of the racist south and the black movement (Enders 2). In 1963, while

Robinson and King were going from church to church speaking they learned that an NAACP officer

Medgar Evers was murdered (2). Shortly after the murder Robinson sent a letter to President John

F. Kennedy asking him to give Martin Luther King secret service protection (3). Kennedy gave

them the protection and later on August 28, 1963 Robinson took his family to see Martin Luther

Kings famous “I have a dream” speech (3).

Later in 1964, the Governor of New York and Republican presidential candidate Nelson

Rockefeller asked Robinson if he wanted to be one of his campaign directors (3). He worked on

the campaign for a short while until Rockefeller lost Barry Goldwater (3). In 1967 while Robinson

was getting angry with the NAACP and he resigned because he thought they were not radical

enough to take charge of the movement (3).

While Robinson was still very frustrated and not satisfied with the way things were going, he got a

call from Hubert Humphery. He was a presidential candidate from Minnesota. Humphery asked

Robinson to campaign along side him and give speeches about the black rights movement. But

Humphery lost to Richard Nixon (3). One reason why the two candidates that Robinson went with

ended up losing was because America still did not like politicians that helped black people and that

went along with their views (4). After the elections time was wearing down Robinson and he went

back home to live with his family (4). At his old age Robinson had endured a lot of pain. Many of

the close friends he had and family members had died including, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther

King and Malcom X who were all assassinated. Also his mother Mallie, Branch Rickey, and his son

Jackie Junior who died in a car accident at the age of 24 (Hill 2). Near the end his life, Robinson